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Elizabeth England

Elizabeth England MBBS, BSc, MRCGP, MSc, PhD

Psychiatry
West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

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Dr. Elizabeth England's research interests are focussed on the policy implementation and development in mental health services. She has been involved in a project generating outcome indicators of patient satisfaction with care received, for people with serious and enduring mental illness and has participated in a review of the published literature between January 1997 and February 2002 concerning adult primary care mental health service delivery and policy. She undertook an evaluation of Primary Care Mental Health Workers in the Heart of Birmingham PCT, which formed the basis of her Masters degree in Primary Care. The Department of Health and Heart of Birmingham PCT funded this (£180, 000).

Following on from this, she lead on an evaluation of the development and implementation of early intervention services for first episode psychosis, which explored policy implementation and the interface between primary care and other statutory agencies and health services with the new specialist mental health service. This was funded by a Department of Health Researcher Development Award and formed the basis of her PhD (£307,000).

She is one of the key researchers involved in the Birmingham and Black Country NIHR CLAHRC Theme 3: Early detection and interventions in psychosis; alongside Professor Max Birchwood (theme leader), Professor Swaran Singh, Professor Helen Lester and Professor Nick Freemantle. Her role within this program of research is to explore DUP (Duration of Untreated Psychosis) in primary care. This will be through a combination of interviews with GPs, carers and patients and analysis of GP records. The CLARHC program has been funded by the National Institute of Health Research NIHR £2, 500,000.

She is currently developing further studies which aim to explore the impact of the ‘youth focused early intervention service model’ in England on health service development and policy. In addition, she is research lead for the evaluation of the West Midlands Mental Health, Substance Misuse and Learning Disabilities Commissioning Modelling Group, which aims to describe current best practice commissioning and models of care in mental health across the region and generate evidence to support Values Based Practice and Commissioning Frameworks.

She is also lead researcher for a study which is exploring best practice in mental health services for people with learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges in Wolverhampton and an evaluation of the management of mental health issues in people with learning disabilities in primary care settings in Wolverhampton (funded by Wolverhampton Council £60 000).
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